Summary

After being assigned to raise a fake baby for health class, Mikasa Ackerman finds herself partnering up with Annie Leonheart. Neither are happy about the arrangement, and Mikasa's the only one who seems to actually care about their grade.

However, Annie's heart isn't the only one changed as the project goes on. Mikasa can't get the other girl out of her head. As time passes, she discovers she has more to worry about than just her doll and her B+ bordering on an A.

Summary

Biopunk. An update of the 1896 novel Quo Vadis.In Serpyllum, a city of the Claudian confederacy within the futuristic neo-Roman Aquilian Empire begun in the former republic of Val Verde, fourteen-year-old Marcus "Marco" Tiberius Abdashtart Valerius, a teenage military camp slave raised as a soldier in the auxiliary archers’ unit of the Fourth Legion, falls in love with a girl named Ligia, another state slave placed in the care of the former actress and courtesan Lucia Procula and her husband Aulus, who has been raised as a daughter by her caretakers. Their relationship takes a dramatic turn when it is discovered that Ligia and her foster family are members of a religious group called The House of The Branch.